Error using checkstyle/google_checks.xml with maven-checkstyle-plugin

Question

I am trying to use checkstyles google_checks.xml with maven-checkstyle-plugin. If I use the google_checks.xml with the latest checkstyle intelliJ plugin everything is correc

Answer 1

I give a demo at

https://github.com/favoorr/Maven-Checkstyle-Multimodule-Use

Multi modules and use Google Chechstyle

Answer 2

Maven checkstyle plugin uses checkstyle 5.7 (the first line of plugin description).

Checkstyle 5.7 does not have this check (see checks package on grepcode).

You need either to disable this check or to wait for official fix of MCHECKSTYLE-261.

Answer 3

fixed this by updating the checkstyle-dependency manually to the latest stable version:

        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.13</version>
            <dependencies>
                <dependency>
                    <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
                    <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
                    <version>${checkstyle.latest.version}</version>
                </dependency>
            </dependencies>
            <configuration>
                <configLocation>${checkstyle.file.path}</configLocation>
                <failOnViolation>false</failOnViolation>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>